Subject: Salvaging Degaussed Drives?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Brady <jrbrady@mindspring.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/17/1999 16:56:22
Hello All,

I recently inherited a number of Emulex SD893 1.8 Gbyte 
drives.  These have a Seagate "SABRE" HDA module and SDI
interface.  Nice drives, but...

The military installation from which they came degaussed 
them.  They'll spin up but not ready due to the lack of
any usable low-level format data on the platters.  

So the question is, are these drives salvageable? If anyone 
can reliably reformat them, I'd gladly trade several drives 
for the service.  Or if you can recommend a vendor it would 
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason Brady    jrbrady@mindspring.com   Lynnwood, WA